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Coming Soon: WritersMosaic challenges history at HOME on 15 June

A WritersMosaic panel explores the literary voices shedding new light on history.
9th June 2021
     
    How does fiction sit side-by-side with history writing? WritersMosaic director, Colin Grant, chairs this essential and timely conversation with playwright and theatre director Patricia Cumper, novelist Umi Sinha and Ingrid Persaud, winner of the 2020 Costa First Novel Award. We often distinguish between history and story, yet history has always been brought to life by storytelling, whether in the form of carved and painted images, through oral traditions, or by means of the written word.
    Unearthing pasts that have been neglected, or purposefully forgotten, is to challenge the myths and foundation stories about who we are.
    WritersMosaic in partnership with Home, produced by Fane.

    Ideas are like rabbits

    ‘Ideas are like rabbits, you get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you will have a dozen.’

    Soundsystem as pedagogy

    'You left recalibrated. Heartbeat altered. Shoulders lowered.'

    Bad Signal

    'All language use can be seen as extending a hand; words and their corresponding meanings are always about relationships'

    The Authenticator

    Painful truths hidden in the shadows of history

    Minor Black Figures

    Making art without looking over your shoulder

    Hedda

    An imperfect description of humanity

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    Free Will

    Will Harris reads his poem, 'Free Will'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

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    Half Written Love Letter

    Selina Nwulu reads her poem, 'Half Written Love Letter'. Directed by Matthew Thompson and commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation.

    Illuminating, in-depth conversations between writers.

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    What we leave we carry, The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

    The series that tells the true-life stories of migration to the UK.

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    Everyone has an elsewhere

    Nine writers explore the elusive emotional truth behind narratives and storytelling.

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    Fiction Prescriptions

    Bibliotherapy for the head and the heart

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